Openshift engineer, l2

Job Description: Open Shift Engineer, L2

Noida | Onsite| 24x7 Rotational Shift

We are hiring senior Open Shift engineers for an onsite deployment at a large production data centre in Noida. This is a second line engineering role carrying full ownership of cluster configuration, upgrades and escalations from the L1 support team, on a round the clock support model.

Open Shift Engineer L2

Up to 10 LPA

4+ years Experience

Common Requirements

Location

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, onsite at client premises. Candidates must be based in Delhi NCR or willing to relocate.

Shift

24x7 rotational shift, including night shifts. Weekend availability is required as part of the rotation. Willingness to work rotational shifts including weekends is mandatory and will be confirmed at screening.

Experience

4+ years relevant hands on experience

Notice period

20 to 30 days preferred. Candidates on a longer notice will be considered where a buyout is possible.

Education

B. E. / B. Tech / MCA or equivalent in Computer Science, IT or a related discipline.

Engagement

Full time employment, deployed onsite at the client location.

Role Summary

Second line engineering ownership of a production Red Hat Open Shift platform. The engineer will handle escalations from L1, own cluster configuration, upgrades and operator lifecycle, resolve complex platform issues across networking and storage, and set the operational standards the L1 team works to.

Key Responsibilities

Own escalated incidents from L1; perform root cause analysis across the control plane, nodes, networking and storage layers. Administer cluster configuration, including machine configs, node lifecycle, scheduling, taints and tolerations, and resource management. Plan and execute cluster upgrades and operator lifecycle management with tested rollback procedures. Troubleshoot cluster networking on OVN Kubernetes or Open Shift SDN, services, routes, ingress controllers, network policies, and DNS resolution within the cluster. Manage persistent storage, including storage classes, CSI drivers, Open Shift Data Foundation or equivalent, and PV/PVC lifecycle and capacity. Administer and tune the monitoring, logging and alerting stack, including Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana and cluster logging. Manage platform security including RBAC design, service accounts, security context constraints, certificate rotation, and image registry policy and scanning. Manage etcd health, control plane availability, and cluster backup and restore procedures. Automate operational tasks using Ansible, Helm and Git Ops practice; support CI/CD pipeline integration with the platform. Write and maintain runbooks and SOPs; mentor L1 engineers and drive up first line resolution. Participate in change management, problem management and post incident reviews; coordinate with Red Hat support on platform defects.

Required Skills

4+ years of hands on experience administering Open Shift or Kubernetes in production, including cluster level ownership. Strong command of Open Shift architecture, including control plane components, etcd, scheduler, controllers and node lifecycle. Cluster networking depth in OVN Kubernetes or Open Shift SDN, ingress and route configuration, and network policies; service mesh exposure is an advantage. Persistent storage experience in Kubernetes, including storage classes, CSI and dynamic provisioning; Open Shift Data Foundation or Ceph experience preferred. Experience planning and executing cluster upgrades and operator updates in a production estate. Monitoring and observability experience with Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana and cluster logging using EFK or Loki. Platform security experience, including RBAC, security context constraints, certificates, and registry and image policy. Automation with Ansible and Helm; scripting in Bash or Python; familiarity with Git Ops tooling such as Argo CD. Strong Linux administration on RHEL or RHEL Core OS. Demonstrated root cause analysis capability with clear written documentation.

Preferred

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Open Shift Administration, or Red Hat Certified Architect. Experience with Open Shift Virtualization or Kube Virt. Exposure to Open Stack as the underlying infrastructure layer. Experience in telecom, BFSI or other large regulated data centre environments. Experience mentoring or leading a shift based support team.